Contaminated vs Obnoxious - What's the difference?
contaminated | obnoxious | Related terms |
(contaminate)
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
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Contaminated is a related term of obnoxious.
As adjectives the difference between contaminated and obnoxious
is that contaminated is adulterated; impure while obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.As a verb contaminated
is (contaminate).contaminated
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(head)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "contaminated" is often applied: food, meat, fish, milk, water, groundwater, land, soil, sediment, site, property, air, product, material.obnoxious
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Alternative forms
* obnoctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.